Meditation Tools - Meditation Chair

I love my Gaiam chair for teaching, as well as meditating. It was worth the purchase, for me it was an investment into my practice. I wanted to feel like I was truly sitting in sacred space – literally. It is also like a “work of art”, nearly everyone comments on my chair when they see it. It feels like a queen’s chair but in a spiritual sense! 🙂

Meditation Tools - Beats Solo3 Wireless Headphones

For me, meditating and journeying is easier and more profound when I can immerse myself in the music or the voice of the narrator. To push the outside world out, and then with breathwork I like to have the freedom of movement. So these wireless headphones do all of that. They are multi functional as well, I can use them to connect to my TV so I don’t bother neighbors watching a movie and I love to travel with them. They are worth every cent!

Meditation Tools - Mindfold Mask

Tying in with the idea of headphones, an eye mask also helps me to shut out the outside world so I can “see” my journeys more easily. I love the MindFold because I can open my eyes within the mask and it’s easy to adjust to just the right size. It also cleans up easily.

Meditation Tools - Prayer Shawl

Sometimes I can get chilled when I meditate and yeah, it’d be easy to just grab a blanket and wrap up but honestly, a lot of my blankets smell like dog. So … I keep my prayer shaw in a special place – sometimes it is my altar cloth, but mostly I use it for meditation only so when I do use it, it’s as if I am wrapping myself up in the sacredness of the cloth. It gathers that energy from my meditation time and that energy is felt each time I wear it.

Meditation Tools - Mantra Mala

I don’t know about you but my mind can run it’s laps when I meditate. The malas help me to keep my focus while meditating. I also use the mala to count the mantras when I do repetition mantras as a meditation. It’s like a soothing blanket between my fingers too – feeling the beads, staying focused, being connected. And often I will wear my mala as a bracelet or necklace, which again brings me back to calm.

Meditation Tools - Singing Bowls 3 Set

Ideally, the 7 chakra set is the best to have but if you are on a budget and want a good starting point then start with these 3 – heart, sacral, and crown chakras. I will spend a few moments in the resonance of each chakra and feel the vibration opening and balancing my chakras. It’s like taking a bath in sound and the results are wonderful. I will say that the singing bowls drive my animals crazy – they get very excited!

Meditation Tools - Crystal Singing Bowls 7 Set

The 7 chakra set is the best to have because it offers you so many more options. Work on one chakra at a time, or get all the bowls singing simultaneously and feel your entire chakric system waking up. I will spend a few moments in the resonance of each chakra and feel the vibration opening and balancing my chakras. It’s like taking a bath in sound and the results are wonderful. I will say that the singing bowls drive my animals crazy – they get very excited!

Meditation Tools - Aurora LED Light

Okay, so weird fact about me – I am super nerdy about lighting. It can truly make or break a space in terms of the vibe and feel. So I like nerdy things like this light because it can be synced to music, or just create really interesting patterns and lights in a room. Sometimes rather than sitting in meditation, I will turn on the lights and music and lie on the floor or bed and just get lost in it.

Meditation Tools - Shaman's Heart Meditation Training

Explore the Extraordinary Intelligence and Healing Potential of Your Heart

The heart is the center point of all human experience. Though our modern culture focuses on the brain, current neuroscience is confirming what shamans have always known: that the heart is the gateway to healing, maturity, and fully engaged living. With The Shaman’s Heart Meditation Training Program, shamanic teacher and transpersonal psychologist Byron Metcalf combines progressive meditation training with cutting-edge sound technology to help you explore and expand the four essential aspects of your heart:

The Full and Compassionate Heart: Discover your healing potential as you expand your capacity for love, empathy, and generosity

The Open and Trusting Heart: Follow your heart’s guidance for releasing unhealthy attachments and trusting in the unfolding of reality

The Strong and Powerful Heart: Awaken your warrior nature as you tap new resources for strength, courage, and confidence

Using his proprietary Field Effect Audio Technology™ (FEAT) to help you easily and safely access expanded states of consciousness, this renowned teacher offers his most comprehensive training program—created to support you in fully developing your authentic power, purpose, and presence.

Meditation Tools - Druidry and Meditation

Explore the Extraordinary Intelligence and Healing Potential of Your Heart

When I started running meditation groups, I searched for a book that would tell me how to do it. There wasn’t one. Like many Pagans, I hate dogma and resent being told exactly what to do. But at the same time, like everyone starting out on something new, I wanted a frame to hang my work from. I learned the hard, slow way. Druidry and Meditation is a guide for Druids who want to meditate. It explores meditation for the body, the intellect, the emotions and for spiritual practice. There are plenty of easy to follow exercises, along with prompts about how to develop your own work from there, held by a philosophical framework. I’ve included sample pathworkings to get people started, and a detailed explanation of how to construct your own. There’s a chapter on how to run a meditation group – covering practical issues as well as the art of writing for groups and the technicalities of guiding. I’ve also included a section on how to incorporate meditation into group ritual, covering practical issues. Druidry is a beautiful, multifaceted, non-dogmatic spirituality. Every aspect of Druidry can be supported with meditative work. Meditation is not Druidry and Druidry is not meditation, but the two combine to inspiring effect. Many Pagans question, all the time, how we can make our spirituality an intrinsic part of our lives. This meditative approach to Druidry is one answer to that question. Through greater self-awareness, with deep contemplation, spiritual openness and conscious nurturing of creativity, we can explore and express our Paganism in ever more rewarding ways.

Meditation Tools - Seven Thousand Ways to Listen

Explore the Extraordinary Intelligence and Healing Potential of Your Heart

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, “a consummate storyteller with a rare gift for making the invisible visible” (Publishers Weekly), this beautifully written spiritual memoir explores the endless ways we can listen for life’s deepest messages.

Mark Nepo moved and inspired millions of people with his #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening, a spiritual day book. Now, in this new exploration of the human journey, Nepo inquires into the endless ways life asks us to listen. Having experienced hearing loss, Nepo affirms that listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms: “Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters.” Weaving together memoir and meditation exercises, Nepo offers many ways to listen to life and live more fully. A moving exploration of self, our relationship to others, and the world around us, this remarkable guide unpacks the many ways we are called to redefine ourselves and to name what is meaningful as we face life’s challenges.